The document provides quotes from various tech executives about leadership, culture, and people. It emphasizes that leaders empower others, culture is defined by behaviors, and companies should focus on developing their employees and having the right people.
4. The highest calling of leadership is to unlock the
potential of others.
- C A R L Y F I O R I N A
5. The coach doesn't have to play the sport as well as you
do. They have to watch you and get you to be your best.
- E R I C S C H M I D T
6. To me, I learned along the way, you know, culture is
behavior. That's all it is; culture is people's behaviors.
- G I N N I R O M E T T Y
7. One thing a leader does is to remove the stigma of
mistakes.
- G O R D O N M O O R E
8. I spend 90% of my time with people who don't
report to me.
- J A C K D O R S E Y
9. You have to maintain a culture of transformation
and stay true to your values.
- J E F F W E I N E R
10. We focus first on the people and how we
incorporate them into our company, and then we
focus on how to drive the business.
- J O H N C H A M B E R S
11. You treat people with respect, they tend to return
the favor to the company.
- L A R R Y P A G E
12. An organization is nothing more than the collective
capacity of its people to create value.
- L O U I S G E R S T N E R
13. I would only hire someone to work directly for me
if I was willing to work for that person.
- M A R K Z U C K E R B E R G
14. If you have fun at your job, I think you're going to
be more effective.
- M E G W H I T M A N
15. We’re now much better at picking people. And
we’ve also gotten much better at developing them.
- M I C H A E L D E L L
16. Pay attention to your culture and your hires from
the very beginning.
- R E I D H O F F M A N
17. If ethics are poor at the top, that behavior is copied
down through the organization.
- R O B E R T N O Y C E
18. At the core of the products we build, I want to think
about productivity centered around people.
- S A T Y A N A D E L L A
19. Our employees, who have named themselves
Googlers, are everything.
- S E R G E Y B R I N
20. In the future, there will be no female leaders. There
will just be leaders.
- S H E R Y L S A N D B E R G
21. It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and tell them
what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us
what to do.
- S T E V E J O B S
23. Google teams have lots of autonomy, including from
people like me.
- S U N D A R P I C H A I
24. Updating the skills we have and developing the new
ones we need is a mutual responsibility, one shared
between the individual and the company.
- J O H N F . A K E R S
25. Knowing whose advice to take and on what topic is
the single most important decision an entrepreneur
can make.
- V I N O D K H O S L A
26. The job of a manager is to support his or her staff, not
vice versa, and that begins by being among them.
- W I L L I A M H E W L E T T